Why "Prime Evil" should be released: Rights lawyer

In South Africa, Eugene de Kock, an apartheid-era police colonel known as "Prime Evil", has been refused parole.

De Kock was the head of a police death squad targeting anti-apartheid activists.

Justice Minister Michael Masutha says a key reason why De Kock cannot be paroled is because the families of the victims were not consulted.

That may be the case, says Laywers for Human Rights, a South African NGO, but it's not De Kock's fault.

RFI's Michel Arseneault @miko75011 reached the head of their penal reform programme, Clare Ballard.